Turkish FM urges Tehran-Ankara cooperation on PKK
IRNA – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called for joint cooperation between Iran and Turkey to fight the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)…
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Ankara in talks with Tehran over strikes on PKK positions: Erdogan
Tasnim – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara has been in talks with Tehran about its strikes on PKK positions in…
Turkish jets target high level PKK meeting in Iraq’s Qandil
Press TV – Turkish fighter jets have targeted a Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) meeting in Iraq’s Qandil mountains, says Turkish President Recep Tayyip…
No joint anti-PKK operation with Turkey on agenda: IRGC
Press TV – Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has dismissed reports about plans for a joint operation with Turkey against the…
Iran blames Turkey for PKK-affiliate clash on border
Al Monitor | Amberin Zaman: The mind-bending array of alliances and counter-alliances that have long defined armed Kurdish groups seemed to get…
Why Turkey fences off Iran with a wall, towers and barbed wire
Sputnik – Turkish Hurriyet Daily News has recently reported that Ankara will build a wall with towers and iron fences along the…
Turkey plans to build wall on Iranian border to block access for PKK
Sputnik – Ankara is planning to build a wall along the border with Iran within the framework of the efforts to prevent…
Turkey may infiltrate into Iraq, Syria overnight: Erdogan
Press TV – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Ankara would not tolerate the presence of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Iraq’s Sinjar…
After ISIL claims Diyarbakır attack, Turkey insists it was PKK
Turkish Minute– Following the ISIS in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claiming responsibility for a deadly car bomb attack on a police…
Dozen PKK militants killed as Turkish jets hit SE Turkey, N Iraq
At least a dozen members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have been killed after Turkish military aircraft carried out a series…
Domestic pressures mounting on Erdogan over his policies
Alwaght- During the recent month, a number of clashes have erupted between the urban branch of Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) and the…
Turkish jets bomb northern Iraq
The Turkish military says its warplanes have carried out airstrikes against militants from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), destroying their compounds in northern…
Army, PKK clashes leave 24 dead in SE Turkey: Source
Four Turkish soldiers and 20 members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have been killed in the latest clashes in the country’s volatile…
Turkish jets launch air raids against ISIL, PKK targets
Turkey has launched a second wave of aerial raids against the ISIL hideouts in Syria and extended its bombing campaign to military…
Kurdish deal with Ankara reachable: Ocalan
The imprisoned leader of Turkey’s outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has expressed hope to conclude a peace deal with the Turkish government…
A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Oct. 20
IFP has scanned the front pages of Iranian newspapers released on October 20 and has picked items from 26 of them. A…
Turkey in league with ISIL Takfiri militants: PPK leader
A leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has accused the Turkish government of collaborating with the ISIL Takfiri militants operating inside…
PKK urges all Kurds to fight ISIL terrorists in Iraq
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has called on all Kurds to stand up to and fight the ISIL Takfiri terrorists operating inside…
Syrian Kurds declare autonomy on eve of Geneva 2
Syrian Kurds declared an autonomous provincial government in the country’s northern territory on Tuesday, according to reports. The move comes ahead of…
PKK threatens to renew attacks on Turkey
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has threatened to launch a new wave of attacks on Turkey, unless Ankara accepts meaningful negotiations with the…
Iran rejects Turkish official comments as baseless
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s foreign ministry spokeswoman on Wednesday rejected comments by Turkish deputy prime minister as unfounded, saying such accusations can…
PKK’s jailed leader urges serious talks with Ankara
The imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Abdullah Ocalan has urged the Turkish government to engage in serious talks in…
Turkey police, Kurdish protesters clash
Police in southeastern Turkey have clashed with Kurdish protesters demonstrating against a recent government reform package. Protesters took to the streets in…
Just who has been killing Iran’s nuclear scientists?
What to make of the latest alleged assassination in Iran of a senior officer in the Revolutionary Guards just as Iran and…
Kurdish fighters stop withdrawing from Turkey: Report
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has stopped withdrawing its fighters from Turkey due to the inaction of Ankara over the “resolution of…
Turkish politician: PKK seeking to disintegrate Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- A prominent Turkish politician warned of the plots hatched by leaders of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to disintegrate Turkey,…
Kurdistan Workers’ Party has new leaders
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has named Cemil Bayik and Bese Hozat as its new leaders, reports say. The announcement was made…
Turkish ties with Iraq, Iran worsen over PKK peace plan
On May 8, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) started its withdrawal from Turkey to the PKK camps based in the mountainous borders…
Iran lends support to Turkey’s Kurdish bid
Iran supports any action Turkey takes to protect its unity and solidarity, referring to the withdrawal of outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants from…
PKK Kurdish deal with Turkey may worry Iran and Syria
Rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have begun leaving south-eastern Turkey for their main bases in northern Iraq, but there is…
Is Iran supporting Turkish Hezbollah?
The day I called attention to tensions between the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and Turkey’s Hezbollah, the unrest in Diyarbakir escalated. It’s obvious that…
Iran says ‘surprised’ over Turkey’s claim of Iran-PKK ties
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast has said he was “very surprised” by remarks of the Turkish interior minister on Iran’s alleged…